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History, Definition, and Status of V2G

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Vehicle-to-Grid

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Starting with the basics, this chapter defines the conceptualization of vehicle-to-grid and reviews the three elements necessary to a vehicle-to-grid system, including a power connection, communication capability and aggregation, and the means to audit services rendered to the grid. Next, the focus turns to the services that vehicle-to-grid can and, in the future, will offer to the electricity grid, and their respective suitability. Additionally, this chapter discusses how the basic tenets of vehicle-to-grid can be applied to a variety of other neighboring concepts, such as vehicle-to-home or vehicle-to-building, each with their own benefits and costs. The chapter lastly outlines the primary and secondary actors within a typical vehicle-to-grid system.

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  1. Department of Business and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

    Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester & Benjamin K. Sovacool

  2. Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Unit, Falmer, UK

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

  3. Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Noel, L., Zarazua de Rubens, G., Kester, J., Sovacool, B.K. (2019). History, Definition, and Status of V2G. In: Vehicle-to-Grid. Energy, Climate and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04864-8_1

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